Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Taleb Amoli known as Talib Amuli and Talib Amoli ( fa, طالب آملی, also aka ''Ashub'', ''Atash'', ''Taleba'' and ''Malek Al Shoara Taleb'') (b.
Mazandaran 1586 - d.
India
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1627) Iranian
Tabari
( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari i ...
poet was of the early 17th century. He was the poet laureate of the Mughal emperor
Jahangir
Nur-ud-Din Muhammad Salim (30 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir (; ), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until he died in 1627. He was named after the Indian Sufi saint, Salim Chishti.
Ear ...
from 1618 till his death. His poetry is in the “Indian Style” of
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...
.
A poetry collection (''divan'') and the poem ''Talib and Zohre'' are the works that are left of him today. The fact that he read mathematics, geometry and philosophy in his poems reveals that he received a good education. He is also known to be a good calligrapher.
Taleb played a crucial role in the rapid transformation of poetic style at the beginning of the 17th century. His work gave a free rein to the tendency toward conceptualism (Fantasy) in the “fresh style” (later known as the Indian Style) that had begun to emerge a generation earlier in the poetry of Naẓiri and ʿOrfi. At the same time, he gave a new vitality to conventional images and common idioms by exploring their full figurative implications, a procedure Taleb himself revealingly dubs his ''ṭarz-e esteʿāre'' (metaphorical style). Taleb entered Jahangir’s service about 1616 and was appointed to the post of poet laureate (Malek osh-Sho'ara) in 1619. His Ghazal poems are very similar to
Hafez
Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمسالدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...
.
Taleb after poets
Ferdowsi
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...
and
Omar Khayyam
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...
, is the third poet in terms of the number of verses among Iranian poets. Taleb, the number of couplets in the published complex is approaching 23,000. Taleb was buried in the compound of the
Taj Mahal
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at
Shah Jahan
Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...
command when he died. Taleb gravesite is unknown.
Professore associato di lingua e letteratura persiana
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Poem
ما به استقبال غم کشور به کشور میرویم چون ز پا محروم میمانیم با سر میرویم
صد ره این ره رفتهایم و بار دیگر میرویم العطشگویان به استقبال ساغر میرویم
چون به پا رفتن میسر نیست ما را سوی دوست نامه میگردیم و با بالِ کبوتر میرویم
کنون کز مو به مویم اضطراب تازه میریزد نسیمی گر وزد اوراقم از شیرازه میریزد
لب عیشم به هر عمری نوایی میزند اما زبان شیونم هردم هزار آوازه میریزد
دلی دارم که در آغوش مرهم زخم ناسورش نمک میگوید و خمیازه بر خمیازه میریزد
عجب گر نقشبندیهای صبر ما درست آید که عشق این طرح بیپرگار، بیاندازه میریزد
See also
*List of Persian poets and authors
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. This list is alphabetized by chronological or ...
*Persian literature
Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...
Notes
* The Elements of Semantic Ambiguity in the Poetry of Talib Amoli
* Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences - literature.ut.ac
* Network Comprehensive Book Gisoom
References
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17th-century Persian-language poets
People from Amol
1580 births
1626 deaths
Iranian emigrants to the Mughal Empire
Persian literature
Iranian male poets
Iranian emigrants to India
Iranian calligraphers
17th-century Iranian mathematicians